Filmstruck / Criterion Channel

I should join.

Black Narcissus is second to nun.

^^^ lol

I should join.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 8, 2017 12:08 PM

Its only real drawback is a paralyzing surfeit of choices.

for me it is the creeping feeling that i am hiding from reality in an artsy hole, but if i have to hide in a hole it's not a bad one to steal away to

oh also we started watching Bigger Than Life, which I am totally enjoying as well

would buy a "yay for the artsy hole" t-shirt

http://criterioncast.com/news/all-of-the-films-joining-filmstrucks-criterion-channel-this-september

I may only get to watch a few things on here a month, but I love having the channel and its choices.

started watching ROMANZO CRIMINALE, the Italian crime series I mentioned upthread. I like it a lot. I never watched the Sopranos so I can't say much in that regard, but the vibe is good, there's a lot going on, and it's nice to see all the footage of Italy, where I have never been. Certainly my interest in this show is DEFINITELY in its basis on a Giancarlo di Cataldo novel -- the novel hasn't been published in the US (yet?) but there's a UK edition. I'm reading right now a translation of another di Cataldo novel, Suburra, which I'm loving. So I'm kind of on the hardboiled Italian crime vibe right now. And over the last few years I've read tons of Massimo carlotto.. anyhoo, rambling here, but I'm definitely "on board" with this show for now. I wish I knew more about the history of communism v fascism in italy..

I know not many series are on Filmstruck, but it's really atrocious trying to navigate these episodes. They aren't in order no matter how you look at them, when you finish an episode it seems you just have to search for the episodes or browse for them. Sigh.

hooked on RC btw.

Excited for all the Godards I've never found streaming before, added today.

One month engagements of Crit collected editions for October will include On the Waterfront and Harold and Maude.

All Night Long -- British-made take on Othello, set in London jazz world, real-time during a party -- is quite good, and I'd never heard of it.

i want to get this for the t.v. in the bedroom but i would have to hook my computer up to the t.v. and i hate doing stuff like that.

my t.v. gets netflix (which we subscribe to) and youtube. so i watch netflix. and every film noir movie on youtube.

maybe i will go full roku someday.

( i do still miss criterion on hulu...which we have downstairs on the PS4...)

can you get a chromecast and stream it to your tv?

I've been enjoying Kanopy with my LA library card. It has most Criterion films streaming, although not as many as Filmstruck. That said, it's free.

For a few weeks, the Filmstruck channel on Roku had a massive bug — going from the app to the Roku home screen caused the device to do a hard restart. It was still doing it as late as last Friday but it looks like they've fixed it.

scott - chromecast. get it. no computer necessary.

i find their practice of using b/w photos for color movies really distracting
idk why they would do this

we watched Norma Rae recently and it was great

Scott, a roku box is really cheap... like, one wall record cheap.

We got kanopy like a month after we subscribe to filmstruck. There are some hoops to jump through for the former though. I think you can only watch 10 movies a month, and you have to watch them within 3 days.

Yes, it's not straightforward, but again, free.

Sadly, it's been a very long time since a 10 movie/month limit would be a problem for me!

i've got kanopy through the university, but it requires a vpn which then makes chromecasting impossible.

Kanopy is great tho how many plays you get depends on the deal struck by your library/institution. However the Roku app, at least on my Roku TV, is complete garbage - buggy as hell, awkward to navigate (tho not as bad as nu-Hulu) and the subtitle tracks are like 15 seconds in advance of the film, rendering all foreign films unwatchable. They've told me by email they're working on it. :-/

Romanzo Criminale is leaving on Sept 29, FYI. I check this page periodically: https://www.filmstruck.com/us/coming-soon

The Ross McElwee docs are leaving in a week, you don't want to miss those. They are unique.

"(tho not as bad as nu-Hulu)"

OMG, this is one of those cases where i really think a company is doing something to fuck with me personally. like they know it will drive me insane.

i will look into chrome/roku. i probably don't need more ways to watch hours of t.v. but i do miss having criterion at my fingertips even if i often ended up watching more episodes of Nikita when i meant to watch some chantal akerman movie i hadn't seen.

xpost yeah what in the fuck is wrong with them? i had only recently gotten oldHulu installed cause spotify just declared I had a free subscription (tho with such an obscene quantity of commercials that watching TV shows isn't worth fucking with), had fun loading up my watchlist with MOR blockbuster rental quality stuff, and then like three days later it morphed into this unbrowsable monstrosity

was wondering about the TCM content and looking at the website i can't help but notice that there are only five westerns listed. which is kinda sad.

i don't know why companies feel the need to do that. hulu wasn't perfect but jesus there wasn't anything really wrong with how it looked and it was easy to use. i'm guessing they made it more phone-friendly in some way that escapes me? i don't watch stuff on phones.

i think everyone i know had the same reaction to nu-hulu. i think it's an result of people needing to keep their jobs and ABC (always be creating) -- sometimes a thing just needs maintenance, not innovation. this is the world we live in i guess.

http://criterioncast.com/news/all-of-the-films-joining-filmstrucks-criterion-channel-this-october

I've been having trouble with streaming on my Roku TV recently. Tried to watch "Tabloid" but the sound wouldn't synch and the picture kept breaking up. Everything streams fine on my AppleTV.

crikey...

https://www.britbox.com/

oh.. i guess i should have read this thread a couple days ago.
now how do i see the end of romanzo criminale??

hulu SUCKS i want to cancel it honestly.

also anytime i try to go to the homescreen from filmstruck i'm still getting a reset..

I had that problem on my Roku but it seems to have been fixed in the last 2-3 days.

Also in the "classy" movie-streaming market: has anyone tried Fandor? They're doing some promotion through MoviePass to try and hook me on $2/month... that's pretty cheap so I probably should just say what the heck, but I already feel like with Kanopy I do have a reasonable number of "good movies" on easy tap...

I have fandor and filmstruck but never watch either because I'm busy.

however, fandor is great, more cult and avant garde type stuff. midnight movies, experimental film etc.

Some great stuff on filmstruck right now. I had totally forgotten about A Boy and His Dog, which I have somehow never seen. Boy, George Miller sure borrowed a lot from this. Unless it's all in the novella.

couldn't get more than a few minutes into that one when my friend and I tried it a while back :-/ liked the setting and stuff but the sexual violence was very jarring and jarringly handled, for us.

FilmStruck & Shudder -- I need nothing else to subsist!

xpost The sexual violence is one of the things George Miller took.

They're adding Twin Peaks: FWWM on Nov. 16th as a CC Edition, and it will include The Missing Pieces.

http://onvideo.org/criterion-channel-announces-nov-programming/

Imamura's The Pornographers is one I was just checking for the other day; nice to see it will be available soon.

I couldn't get my Filmstruck Roku app to load today ...

Even though the more canonical arthouse films tend to be on Filmstruck, I've watched more things on Fandor more for some reason. Maybe its eclecticism is more inviting. It probably helps that I've never had issues with Fandor on the Roku, where Filmstruck wasn't on it for quite a while; just a few days ago I needed to log in to the Filmstruck app again.

cool, thanks y'all! I'll mull it. though tbh the moviepass itself keeps me busy enough so maybe this shd just be a year of hitting the theater as much as possible